Start at 9:05
Tilahun is welcoming and introducing the State Minister Dr. Abera and Alain Vidal, Director of the CPWF.
Tilahun is providing soem intiila context for this workshop.
Ethiopia has high povertya nd resource degradtion
Ethiopia is now embarking on a five year Growtha nd Transformation program
38 different institutions
*capacity building
*knowledge sharing
*improved decision making
-We need to discuss together the next steps
Tilahun is leading the participants through the goals of the workshop and the agenda for the day.
Thanking His Excellency Dr. Abera. And inviting him to open this workshop.
Dr. Abera speech
Hnoured to welcome this gathering
to share views and also learn from the lessons of the CPWF
Water is key for agriculture and livelihoods
On behalf of MoWr, wleocme you all to the NBDC workshop
Economy of ethiopia depends on agriculture
44% of GDP
Most pop lives in the highlands
rainfall variability is high
Recording of welcoming speech by Carlos Sere [LINK TO VIDEO CLIP]
Presentation by Alain Vidal, Director of the CPWF [LINK TO PRESENTATION]
Lessons
Start with story: about research for development made in Uganda where researchers were looking at water issues. Termites were destroying any attempt to reseed degraded pasture. innovation came from researchers at Unviersity of makerere and capture an itneresting innovation at a workshop in Ethiopia. They organised community coralling of cattle for two weeks with permited pature establisnment. Rapidly the area re-greened.
When we try to address the water issues, we often end up addresisng a water, land, soil issue
reducing hunger=reducing rural poverty
our prorgam looks at reducing rurla poverty, improving livelihoods and ensuring that poor people cna cope with short term and long term changes
resilience challenge--we cannot change the food commodity prices or the climate change. but we can help peopel to cope with lcoala nd global changes. we cna help them to beocme more reislient. This is achieved through imprving water pridtcivity
need to also look at rurla people empowerment, equity and market access, health issues, ecosystems services
example of making sociala nd ecologicial systems more equitable:
mobilise triggers for change between alternate reislient states
CPWF aism to increase the resilience of social ad ecological systems
we have broad partnerships--more than 200 instituions
it conducts researchs that leasds to impact on the poor and to policy change
Phase 2--working in 6 basins
Andes- benefit-sharing mechanisms
Mekong- dams and livelihoods
Nile- rainwater management in Ethiopia
Volta- Small reservioirs, rainwatera nd livelihoods
Limpopo- small reservoirs, rainwater and livelihoods
challenge is to improve rrual livelihoods and their resilience through a landscape approach to rainwater management in the Ethiopia highlands
research will develop appropriate, landscape level
Established a growing network of partners--but only the beginning, we hope that this will grow
impact pathway
we want toa chieve impact and we have a numbe rof input strtageies that will leade to outptus and outcomes
we should be responsive to emereging opportunities
don't just focus on water-also recognise soils, land and other components
*Presentation on the NBDC by TIlahun Amede [LINK TO PRESENTATION]
importance for awm in ethiopia
gave context about rainwater and soil etc in Ethiopia
study sites: Diga, Fogera, Jeldu
working principles:
stronger partnerships
interdicisplinary research
capacity building
gender and diversity
learning and documentation and communication
Innovation for action
target groups:
farmers and communities
development actors (extension agents, NGOs)
Planners
Policy makers
regional organisations
investors
researchers
important to change practcies of researchers themselves
issues for discussion:
moving into non-conventional forntiers: rainwater
maintaining and forming unusual partnerships
dealing with diversitya dn complexity
farm communities taking charge slowly
institutional arrangements are complex
capacity to scale up complex NRM agenda limited
Non-coherent approaches, institutional mandate
*Presentation by Daniel Denano and Dejene Abesha-on National Context: sustainable land management for agricultural water management [LINK TO COPY OF PRESENTATION]
Daniel Denano
establishing baseline on carbon
priority areas of investment:
agriculture water (irrigation)
agricultural water management technologies and approaches
natural resource management and utlisation (land, ag water dev, forest and forest by products)
capacity building
strengthening networking
Dejene Abesha
essential prerequisites for scaling up successful AWM technologies and approaches
1. Aspiration for change
2. Active community-based participation
the beneficiary communities should take the driver seat
3. securing land and water user rights
ensuring water use permits
ensuring land use permits
4. Social capital
communities have a vital role in promoting change
where possible build on and strengthen
5. Quick and tangible benefits
tangible financial and/or social benefits to the community or individual are a prerequisite for adoption
6. Market opportunities
7. Offer a choice of technologies rather than single standard solutions
8. Multi-sectoral and integrated approach
*Doug Merrey presentation [LINK TO PRESENTATION]
move from participation/consultation to community responsibility, empowerment through demand-based programs
strengthen partnerships of farmers, DAs, researchers, other stakeholders
transform performance evaluation of officials from achievements based on targets to assessment and incentives based on clients' (farmers') feedback
promote community responsibility and collective action to solve their own problems.
Questions:
1. (Advisor to Pres of Amhara region) are these issues really problems form us experts or from the beneficiaries?
and why do communities fail to manage their resources? can you comment on institutional and social components of NRM
2. sustainable land management in the highlands.are there experiences to share from the world with Ethiopia to improve the conditions there?
3. (birhanu from eth econ ass, senior researcher in forestry dept.)- 3 issues of doug present:
expected to hear about some map/atlas-pop growth and migration impacts on land management, change in livelihoods
investment in land management--what about value additions; what has happened in terms of investment and its impact; the way investment has been done
4. (seleshi bekele)
to Doug---need to elaborate on how to balance between community driven approaches and need for scientific knowledge
to Dejene- is SLM recommending this paradigm?
5. (Bharat) are there good examples in Ethiopia/ working laboratories like we have in India?
6. (Amare)-to Doug
Office18
4:30- Session on moving forward
Amanda Harding is facilitating this session.
We now have our first set of results from N1 that was presented
What does this mean for your engagement with the changes that we are trying to achieve?
Doug is (re)presenting his last two slides
What is our vision?
My vision for next 20 years includes that land is being used productively, lots of biomass is being produced, people are well fed, children are going to school, there is alot of tourism.
What is the vision for Ethiopian?
NBDC is a unique opp to build on past opps, to build new partneships, to draw on new perspectives, new data and information from research, get to the new stage of a sustainable land and water management program
ethiopia needs to go to a new level of consultation-to programs which empower communities, based on interactions, they should take onwership
critical to work with communities-not only to est technical innovations, but also instituional innovations
importance of strengthening plicy support for sustainable demand-driven research based rainwater management programs
Q: Where do you see your enagamenet, committmenyt-what would this look like? for achieving wider vision but also objectives of the NBDC?
(Dr. Belay, Arba Minch University)- we have a tradition of training students at MSc and Phd level and are invovled in research activities. I see my institute fitting in the scientific components. We cna engage students in those activities. We are on board!
*IUCN--what we are doing in the region?
water governance
creating opportunities for communities to be empowered, organise themselves, use results and knowledge
water user associations and other
working in Uganda, have done some in Ethiopia before
we would like to pursue a link with this project
another area is- adaptation to climate change, especially on the community level
how do communities adapt and sustain themselves under climate change. This project can/should look at this--and IUCN is working on this
Project in Tanzania, shared in Ethiopia, partnering with GWP-based here in Addis Ababa
*ASARECA
we work in 10 countries
9 are Nile basin countries
there is a link with what ASARECA is doing in NRM
we are working on adoption
ASARECA can play a role in promoting technologies in other Nile countries
another project we are launching in Northern Ethiopia- management of water technologies to enhance productivity
capacity enhancement-we want to help other scientists int eh region learn from the methods, experiences, results etc
Q from Amanda-how can we engage on the National and policy level?
(Daniel Denano)- fraemwork for all SLM actvities int eh country--platform
national level steering committee
technical committeee-most organisations engage with this
opp for theis porgram to work with SLM--as long as its topic areas matches
already been working with Tilahun
*(Dejene Abesha)
rainwater harvesting is the best entry point for sustainable development
challenges in promoting technologies
hope this program can bring in new technologies
feed results from research projects into the extension system
based in Addis cna syngerise efforts to the gov
leading a project on irrigation--one intervention is water harvesting
we are stranded in implementing water harvesting--
we would also like to see knowledge sharing and tehcnical sharing that we could also use to get information out to the areas where we work
*(prof. associatio of economists)
membership of over 3000
independent think tank group
giving feedback on gov policy
very popular in country nd sub-continenet
over 30 staff, around 15 senior research positions
policy research in 4 areas
micro econ
ag and NRM
poverty and HR
??
partnership with IWMI and another project on climate change and water storage
EEA contributes alot in terms of communicating research--we have a good forum organised on thematic issues, for all aspects of development in Ethiopia
*Aster (ICRAF)
ag landscapes play a crucial role in terms of water management and also livelihoods
ICRAF is a partner in terms of land use change assessment, soil health and identifying important species in terms of soil fertility--to integrate this into ag landscapes
we are looking for National partners?
Amanda-are ambitions are multi-scale. we are getting better at our action research, we are not so good at doing the National partnership level. how do we creta ehte platforms and alliances? how do we find mechansisms to help with adoption of interventions? how can we become better performers so we cna sit at teh table and discuss our research results and contribute to impact on the ground.
*Closing words by Tilahun
commitments will be followed up
we are dedicated to amking this consortium work
we will come back to you
we are looking forward to consolidated action
next step for us to her some final feedbakc from you all
Participants reflections:
ASARECA- we need to move away from the idea that no imapct can come from 3-4-5 year projects. We need to track the kind of chnages on the ground with repsect to the outcomes you have proposed. We need to committ ourselves to achieveing impact ont eh ground.
*this is a greta gathering with alot of stakeholders from National and regional bodies. combining the scientific communities with others-we learn alot from each other. we have to plan practically. seeing impact on NMR is 3-4 years may be difficult but we have to do a minimum of concrete technology innovations. We have to focus. We don't have to start from scracth--the syntehsis has shown us what ahs bene done and learned and where we cna go further. We need to work with the real actors, the people int eh communities, the real workers.
*(Abeba Fanta)-
*)Don Peden)-i was struck by comments during the day.we cna go deeper and learn alot more. Rec--needs to be a deeper lit review to amke sure we are not misisng out on knowledge from other countries, highland areas, mountian programs, ICIMOD.
Closing by Seleshi bekele
- CGIAR reform update
many MPs will betaregting Ethiopia and the Nile
there are many opportunities out there
Tilahun is welcoming and introducing the State Minister Dr. Abera and Alain Vidal, Director of the CPWF.
Tilahun is providing soem intiila context for this workshop.
38 different institutions
*capacity building
*knowledge sharing
*improved decision making
-We need to discuss together the next steps
Tilahun is leading the participants through the goals of the workshop and the agenda for the day.
Thanking His Excellency Dr. Abera. And inviting him to open this workshop.
Dr. Abera speech
Recording of welcoming speech by Carlos Sere [LINK TO VIDEO CLIP]
*Presentation on the NBDC by TIlahun Amede [LINK TO PRESENTATION]
*Presentation by Daniel Denano and Dejene Abesha-on National Context: sustainable land management for agricultural water management [LINK TO COPY OF PRESENTATION]
*Doug Merrey presentation [LINK TO PRESENTATION]
Questions:
1. (Advisor to Pres of Amhara region) are these issues really problems form us experts or from the beneficiaries?
- and why do communities fail to manage their resources? can you comment on institutional and social components of NRM
2. sustainable land management in the highlands.are there experiences to share from the world with Ethiopia to improve the conditions there?3. (birhanu from eth econ ass, senior researcher in forestry dept.)- 3 issues of doug present:
- expected to hear about some map/atlas-pop growth and migration impacts on land management, change in livelihoods
- investment in land management--what about value additions; what has happened in terms of investment and its impact; the way investment has been done
4. (seleshi bekele)- to Doug---need to elaborate on how to balance between community driven approaches and need for scientific knowledge
- to Dejene- is SLM recommending this paradigm?
5. (Bharat) are there good examples in Ethiopia/ working laboratories like we have in India?6. (Amare)-to Doug
4:30- Session on moving forward
Amanda Harding is facilitating this session.
Doug is (re)presenting his last two slides
Q: Where do you see your enagamenet, committmenyt-what would this look like? for achieving wider vision but also objectives of the NBDC?
(Dr. Belay, Arba Minch University)- we have a tradition of training students at MSc and Phd level and are invovled in research activities. I see my institute fitting in the scientific components. We cna engage students in those activities. We are on board!
*IUCN--what we are doing in the region?
*ASARECA
Q from Amanda-how can we engage on the National and policy level?
- (Daniel Denano)- fraemwork for all SLM actvities int eh country--platform
- national level steering committee
- technical committeee-most organisations engage with this
- opp for theis porgram to work with SLM--as long as its topic areas matches
- already been working with Tilahun
*(Dejene Abesha)*(prof. associatio of economists)
*Aster (ICRAF)
Amanda-are ambitions are multi-scale. we are getting better at our action research, we are not so good at doing the National partnership level. how do we creta ehte platforms and alliances? how do we find mechansisms to help with adoption of interventions? how can we become better performers so we cna sit at teh table and discuss our research results and contribute to impact on the ground.
*Closing words by Tilahun
- commitments will be followed up
- we are dedicated to amking this consortium work
- we will come back to you
- we are looking forward to consolidated action
- next step for us to her some final feedbakc from you all
Participants reflections:*this is a greta gathering with alot of stakeholders from National and regional bodies. combining the scientific communities with others-we learn alot from each other. we have to plan practically. seeing impact on NMR is 3-4 years may be difficult but we have to do a minimum of concrete technology innovations. We have to focus. We don't have to start from scracth--the syntehsis has shown us what ahs bene done and learned and where we cna go further. We need to work with the real actors, the people int eh communities, the real workers.
*(Abeba Fanta)-
*)Don Peden)-i was struck by comments during the day.we cna go deeper and learn alot more. Rec--needs to be a deeper lit review to amke sure we are not misisng out on knowledge from other countries, highland areas, mountian programs, ICIMOD.
- Closing by Seleshi bekele
- CGIAR reform updatemany MPs will betaregting Ethiopia and the Nile
there are many opportunities out there